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Program - Workshops; September 15, 2009

Workshop 1: Global Resource Use

Chaired by Harry Lehmann, General Director, Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies German Federal Environmental Agency
 
Stefan Bringezu, Director, Material Flows and Resource Management Wuppertal Institute; Member UNEP Resource Panel

Stefan Giljum, Head, Research Group Sustainable Resource Use, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI)
and
Lisa Kernegger, GLOBAL 2000 Friends of the Earth Austria, present the "Global resource report".
 
Bas deLeeuw, Head, Integrated Resource Management of UNEP
 

Workshop 2: Dematerialization - A Global Perspective

Chaired by Hans-Peter Egler, Head, Trade and Clean Technology Cooperation, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
 
Dajian Zhu, Professor, Department of Economics and Management Tongji University, Shanghai
 
Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
 
and
Fritz Hinterberger, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), "How to measure products’ ecological sustainability performance. Results of an Austrian ECR pilot project"
 

Workshop 3: Eco-Innovation

Chaired by Michal Miedzinski, Technopolis Group
 
Beatriz Yordi, Head of  Unit Market Replication, Eco-Innovation and Intelligent Energy, Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI)
 
Klaus Fichter, Founder and Director, Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability
 
Yi-Heng Cheng, CEO, Quanta K&M Co.
 

Workshop 4: Limits to Resource Consumption

Chaired by Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt, Founder, 4links-consulting
 
Allessandro Galli, Global Footprint Network
 
Dennis Meadows, President, Laboratory for Interactive Learning; Japan Price Laureate
 
Helga Weisz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
 

Workshop 5: Towards a New Economic Framework 

Chaired by Bernd Meyer, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Osnabrueck 
 
Christian Lutz, GWS Osnabrueck
 
Junko Edahiro, Chief Executive of Japan for Sustainability
 
Faye Duchin, Professor, Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 

Workshop 6: Sustainable Financing in a resource efficient world

Chaired by Mathias Onischka, Wuppertal Institute
 
Kristina Rüter, oekom research, Research Director
 
Joachim Ganse, Deloitte & Touche, Director Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
 
Fred Luks, Bank Austria, Sustainability Management
 

Workshop 7: Sustainable Companies - Resource efficient Product Service Systems

Chaired by Michael Lettenmeier & Holger Rohn, Wuppertal Institute
 
Manfred Greis, Viessmann Werke GmbH & Co KG
 
Franz Hölzl, SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG
 
Clemens Wögerbauer, Manager, Alternative Resources Business Development, Holcim
 
Hubert Rhomberg, CEO Rhombergbau AG
 

Workshop 8: Resources and Risks

Chaired by Walter Ammann, President, Global Risk Forum Davos
 
R. Martin Lees, Secretary General, The Club of Rome
 
Bruno Oberle, General Director, Swiss Federal Agency for the Environment
 
Koko Warner, Head, Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, UNU-EHS
 

Side event UNEP Resource Panel (= Partner of the World Resources Forum)

Bas de Leeuw, Head of the Secretariat of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, UNEP (Opening address and role of the Resource Panel)
 
Werner Bosmans, DG Environment, European Commission (Understanding the policy perspective)

Stefan Bringezu, Wuppertal Institute (Findings of the Working Group on Biofuels)
 
Marina Fischer Kowalski, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna (Future scenarios for global material flows)
 
Mark Swilling, Professor, Sustainable Development Planning and Management, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (Preliminary findings of the Working Group on Decoupling)

 

 

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